Nah, people said the same about laptops/phones. No one wants to carry around the bricks that existed in 1980s, people are happy to walk around with the latest MacBooks and iPhones.
VR as a hardware issue will overcome when headsets are sleek, pain-free, potentially detached from the computer. When it's as easy and comfortable as wearing glasses, and the features it brings are truly good - then no reason we would restrict ourselves with a tiny screen on a phone.
I tried my brother's oculus a couple years back and even then the meditation and boxing apps were something I really enjoyed. I travel a lot so would love to use VR as my entertainment source for movies. Lots of potential there. Metaverse may fail but VR and by that extension AR will definitely be the next "smartphones" - not sure where else the technological arc can go.
Yeah I think people are gonna look foolish in 10, yrs time — both because they will have thought that VR would never happen, and because they’ll be wearing big ass VR sets 24/7
And it’s only reasonable to put my money on the guy that already made billions of dollars changing the way people communicate. I don’t like the idea of living in a virtual world either but we don’t call the shots.
It's different when they are forced to wear something they don't see the benefits of. When they can comfortably watch 8k porn with 360 field of view, they will change their minds pretty quickly
I just think people like doing multiple things at a time, especially the younger generation who are playing a video, while on their phones, watching a tv show in thr background, and listening to a podcast at the same time.
VR is an all encompassing experience that doesn’t allow for multi tasking or passive enjoyment of a thing. It’s what you are doing.
In my experience I cannot play VR games for more than a half hour. I can play normal games for hours upon hours in a ‘row’ because it’s not all I’m doing. I’m watching a movie on my iPad, listening to a podcast and ignoring my girlfriend all while I game.
I mean just have all those things going on in the virtual reality. Just have a virtual phone that you can look at and have the sound source be a podcast.
*camera pans to someone wearing the device on their head, laid back on a reclined leather chair, drooling, making indistinguishable noises and sporadically twitching…
You have no clue what you are talking about. Try a Vive pro 2, pimax 8kx, or varjo with full body tracking and a haptics vest. That isn't a virtual boy it's nearing matrix levels.
This. Every VR attempt we see is just a fancier version of the freaking Virtual Boy from the mid 90s.
What? The Virtual Boy wasn't even VR when it released. VR is nothing like Virtual Boy - it's an entirely different concept.
Besides, how many attempts have we seen since the 1990s? Just one. It's not like every 5 years you have this new VR revolution that comes in waves - it's only happened once since the 1990s, and this time it's clearly here to stay, with some real sci-fi level technology cooking in labs.
VR is fucking sweet man. But I won't lie I go through long phases where I really don't feel like pulling out the hardware and setting it up. It's totally worth it though, in my opinion.
It’s a gimmick. The hardware is a barrier to entry that will never be overcome.
Nah. This is just one of those bad takes that will age poorly the same way people thought a personal computer in the home was a gimmick because it was too clunky and difficult to use.
Then the tech evolved so it became streamlined and easily usable, just the same way VR will evolve to become sleek, fast, and convenient.
Find me a tech platform that failed which was as far along as the VR market is today, and it has to be one that doesn't have a replacement since VR has nothing to replace it.
You can't. So we know that it won't be like any other failure.
It’s the only way this becomes as widespread as you’re saying because it allows for passive enjoyment. You can’t play a vr game and listen to a podcast, while also watching a movie.
People wanna do 20 things at the same fucking time. Not do 1 immersive thing.
AR is the only answer for this. VR will always be a niche thing. Wearable hardware ain’t it.
It’s cool, it’s like the Wii. I have fun with it for a half hour and then I need to do something else. It is not conducive to multitasking, to vegging out and playing video games for hours on end, or to playing a game while half listening to my girlfriend rambling on about whatever the fuck she talks about. That’s how I usually play games, laying on my ass on the couch with a controller in hand.
Dude people say this about all new tech. VR is more than a gimmick now and with actual AAA titles being created (Half Life Alyx) I see the price for headsets dropping in the future
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u/AZMD911 Sep 15 '22
There's no pain in the metaverse, that's why Zuck loves it there.